Payne v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a consensual encounter “remain[s] consensual as long as the citizen voluntarily cooperates with the police”
• holding that consensual encounter became a seizure when defendant refused officer's request to open his fist and officer grabbed defendant's hand, forcing it open
• questioning by police officers does not - 5 - implicate Fourth Amendment as long as citizen voluntarily cooperates
• suppressing the evidence on the ground that the police did not have adequate suspicion to conduct a Terry search
• discussing three types of encounters with the police: consensual, investigatory, and arrest
• noting “[t]he ‘principle embodied by the phrase “free to leave” means the ability to ignore the police and to walk away from them,’ to ‘ “feel free to decline the officers’ requests or otherwise terminate the encounter.” ’ ” (citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

31 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• McGee v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-07-08· cited 907×
• Blevins v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2003-04-29· cited 132×
• Andrews v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2002-02-12· cited 109×
• Wechsler v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1995-04-11· cited 95×
• Davis v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2002-02-05· cited 64×
• Lawrence v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-09-28· cited 38×
• Jones v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2008-08-26· cited 34×
• Roberts v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2009-11-10· cited 30×
• Walker v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2004-04-13· cited 30×
• McLellan v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2001-11-20· cited 26×
• Piggott v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2000-12-05· cited 20×
• Harris v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2002-08-20· cited 18×
• Toliver v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1996-08-06· cited 15×
• Roulhac v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2007-06-12· cited 14×
• Reittinger v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1999-05-25· cited 11×
• Nesbit v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1992-12-01· cited 11×
• Garrison v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2001-07-31· cited 10×
• Harrell v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1999-08-03· cited 9×
• McNair v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1999-04-27· cited 5×
• Commonwealth v. Jackson
  Alleghany County Circuit Court· 1995-10-20

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Terry v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 37,942×
• United States v. Mendenhall
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-30· cited 6,313×
• Delaware v. Prouse
  Supreme Court· 1979-03-27· cited 5,549×
• Florida v. Bostick
  Supreme Court· 1991-06-20· cited 4,435×
• Sibron v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 4,326×
• Williams v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1987-03-17· cited 209×
• United States v. Albert Wilson
  Fourth Circuit· 1991-12-31· cited 183×
• Iglesias v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1988-09-06· cited 117×
• United States v. Jeffrey Scott Alpert
  Fourth Circuit· 1987-04-21· cited 86×
• Richards v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1989-08-29· cited 78×
• Smith v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1991-08-06· cited 50×
• Moss v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1988-10-18· cited 46×
• Goodwin v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1990-12-04· cited 42×
• Riley v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1992-01-07· cited 42×